Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)
… to the trick-taking #cardgame FLASCHENTEUFEL, where the person left holding the bottle at the end of the game loses (& possibly goes to Hell, the rules are unclear on that point) …